Table 4.

Average length of the time periods and average service levels for an illustrative subset of services under the budget-constraint (BC) scenario

	Post Event	Steady State	Post Event	Steady State	Post Event	Steady State	Post Event
	Period 1a	Period 1b	Period 2a	Period 2b	Period 3a	Period 3b	Period 4a	Period 4b
Event at start of period	Diagnosis		Increased care needs. Some degree of supervision necessary.		Hospitalised eg minor fall, UTI, pneumonia		Increased care needs and carer strain. Trigger event.	Nursing Home
Average Length of period in weeks	7.6	57.4	4	61	4.8	60.2	44	21
Total No. of Weeks per period		65		65		65		65
Home Help (hours per week)	0.0	1.0	2.6	4.6	5.4	9.0	16.8	0.0
Day Care (days per week)	0.0	0.2	0.4	0.8	0.6	1.2	0.4	0.0
Meals on Wheels (meals per week)	0.0	0.0	0.0	1.6	2.6	3.2	3.6	0.0
Public Health Nurse (visits per period (a)/per year (b))	1.0	1.6	0.6	4.2	1.2	4.6	9.2*	0.0

*Note: Visits per year